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Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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So humble numbers of people infected outside China, why is the whole world panicking?

It's racism. In the West, Sinophobia is an acceptable form of it.

If we were letting racism against the Chinese dominate our response, we’d be dismissing the outbreak while numbers outside China were small.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Growth still looks exponential and attempts at containment seem to have failed.

Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.

In my city (Lviv, Ukraine), number of viral pneumonia cases is jumped by 4x since Jan 26, but we have no test kits to confirm kind of virus they caused by. They can be caused by regular influenza, as usual, or they can be caused by corona. Nobody knows yet. :-/

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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GIGO - The numbers from China are a complete fiction - amazes me how gullible and slow the mainstream media has been to catch onto what has been really going on in China. Peak Prosperity Videos are quite good at making sense of the sporadic info that does escape the China censors https://youtu.be/P_3hNPTofEU Huge crematoriums with 30 ovens each are running 24/7 to deal with the deaths - most estimates from citizen journalists are 10-15X official figures. Most cases are not tested, they are sent home due to lack of capacity at hospitals also lack of test kits. Subsequent deaths are classified as respiratory complications not 2019-nCov.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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So humble numbers of people infected outside China, why is the whole world panicking?

It's racism. In the West, Sinophobia is an acceptable form of it.

How is wanting to contain the spread of an exponentially expanding virus racist?

As far as punitive actions against a country, the world is taking a relatively light approach to China especially when one factors in their treatment of the Uyghurs. They have placed an entire ethnic minority into concentration camps for reprogramming. That's racism.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growth still looks exponential and attempts at containment seem to have failed.

Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.

Probably because of the precautions taken. It's like the old tale of "Why do we need IT support dept. if your system never breaks down?". Precautions probably helped containing the virus, not the other way around that we don't need to take precautions.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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So humble numbers of people infected outside China, why is the whole world panicking?

China will likely not be able to contain the virus at this stage. it also could mutate and change it's behavior.

> it also could mutate and change it's behavior.

With flu / colds, my understanding is that it's typically milder mutations which end up thriving, as the milder the symptoms, the more likely people are to try to carry on with their normal lives rather than isolating themselves (and thus infect more people).

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